Transcript EDUC 5303G Technology and the Curriculum Sylvia Buchanan May 17, 2011 Elementary School Tech Used Today Future Museum Entrance University Teaching Challenges Secondary School The Early Years Welcome to the Museum of Technology & Me Curator’s Offices Sylvia Buchanan Curator’s Office Sylvia Buchanan Born.

EDUC 5303G Technology and the Curriculum
Sylvia Buchanan
May 17, 2011
Elementary
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Tech
Used
Today
Future
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University
Teaching
Challenges
Secondary
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The Early Years
Welcome to the Museum of
Technology & Me
Curator’s
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Sylvia Buchanan
Curator’s
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Sylvia Buchanan
Born April 23, 1961
Grew up with little technology, now
wouldn’t want to live without it.
Have spent more than a quarter of a
century travelling and working
throughout the world, in a variety of
occupations.
Contact me at [email protected]
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The Early Years – 1961-1965
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The Etch A Sketch was a favourite toy, as
no technology was available during this
period of my life.
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Elementary School 1966-1972
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B&W television , transistor radio, 110 camera,
Polaroid camera and record players were the
only forms of technology I was exposed to
during this period.
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Senior Public School 1973-1975
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Technology at school came in the form of
manual typewriters and calculators. Also
got our first colour television and a TV
converter, so no longer had to get up to
turn the channel.
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Secondary School 1973-1979
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Technology at school came in the form of
reel to reel film, cassette tapes, portable
tape recorders and electric typewriters.
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Technology at Work & Play
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University 1997-2002
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Teaching Overseas
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Vision of the Future
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Computer Chair
Built-in computer desk
Computer that reads like a book
Cell phone camera
iBangle
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Technologies I Use
Digital Cameras
Digital Picture Frames
Laptop
IPod
Blackberry
Internet Stick
Portable Scanner
ScreenPlay Pro External Drive
Numerous Software Packages
Interactive Websites
Digital Equipment
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Challenges for Teaching in the Digital Age
 Not all students have the same level of
technical understanding
 Cost of training/purchase of initial
equipment
 Insufficient training or unfamiliarity with
software
 Increased workload
 Lesson preparation is time consuming
 Malfunctioning equipment
 Technical difficulties
 High cost of upgrading hardware/software
 Educational software may differ from that
in the workplace
Microsoft Office Clip Art
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Technology of the Future
One of the most important elements of my future
classroom would be to ensure it was connected to the
world. It will be completely wired with ‘cool’ gadgets
like a built-in computer desk, a computer that reads
like a book when one screen is just not enough, a cell
phone that can take photographs, and the next
generation iPad; the iBangle, and of course more
comfortable chairs to sit in.
Digital Technology of the Future
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Overview
 Began using computers in 1983 at Rogers Cable,
Oshawa
 Wang Computers 1986, London England
 Wellesley Hospital 1992-1997, Toronto
 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 1997-1999,
Halifax
 York University 1999-2002, Toronto
 Masterfile Photography Stock Agency 2000-2002,
Toronto
 Private Kids School/Corporations 2002-2003,
Digital Technology
Seoul, Korea
 Private School 2003, Bangkok, Thailand
 Private Colleges 2004-2009, Muscat, Oman
 Government University 2010, Medina, Saudi Arabia
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The Early Years - 1962
This is a photograph of my older sister, my
mother and myself at 2.
In my early years there was little in the way of
technology except for radio and black and
white television.
In those days there were with few channels to
choose from and they went off the air each
night.
Family Photo
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Etch A Sketch
Created by Andre Cassagnes in the late
1950’s.
Produced by the Ohio Art Company, which
launched the toy in 1960.
Became extremely popular and is still available
today.
Originally produced in Bryan, Ohio, but since
2001 has been manufactured in Shenzhen,
China.
Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch_A_Sketch
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The Early Years -1963
This photograph was taken when I was two
years old with my two older sisters on my
grandparents farm in rural Nova Scotia.
January 1963
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1966-1972
This was my first transistor radio, 110 film and
Polaroid camera , which I still have today.
A transistor radio is a small portable radio
receiver using transistor-based circuitry.
Following their development in 1954 they
became the most popular electronic
communication device in history, with billions
manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s.
Their pocket size sparked a change in popular
music listening habits, for the first time
allowing people to listen to music anywhere
they went. In the 1970s their popularity
declined as other portable media players such as
boom boxes and portable cassette players took
over.
Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio
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Grade 4 School Photo 1970
Thought I would share one of my old
school pictures and make it look like a
Polaroid.
During my elementary years I attended school
in:
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Ottawa, Ontario
Cornwall, Ontario
Technology as we know it today was a long
way off when I was in primary school.
9 years old
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The Record Player
Thomas Edison began to understand the principles of
recording and playing sounds in 1877 when he
discovered how to play back a recorded message
through the telephone. Edison released his idea to the
world when he invented the first record player on
November 21, 1877. The device was patented in
February of 1878. The first record player that Edison
invented recorded sound on a tinfoil record player
cylinder using an up and down motion with an
instrument called a stylus. The sound was recorded
into the foil's indentations that were wrapped around
the cylinder of the record player.
Retrieved from:
http://www.ehow.com/about_5052873_record-players.html
An album and singles
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B&W Television
The history of television records the work of numerous
engineers and inventors in several countries over many decades.
The fundamental principles of television were initially explored
using electromechanical methods to scan, transmit and
reproduce an image. As electronic camera and display tubes
were perfected, electromechanical television gave way to allelectronic systems in nearly all applications. An estimated
19,000 electronic television sets were manufactured in Britain,
and about 1,600 in Germany, before World War II. About 7,000–
8,000 electronic sets were made in the U.S.[107] before the War
Production Board halted manufacture in April 1942, production
resuming in August 1945.
Television usage in the United States skyrocketed after World
War II with the lifting of the manufacturing freeze, war-related
technological advances, the gradual expansion of the television
networks westward, the drop in set prices caused by mass
production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable
income. In 1947, Motorola introduced the VT-71 television for
$189.95, the first television set to be sold for under $200, finally
making television affordable for millions of Americans. While
only 0.5% of U.S. households had a television set in 1946,
55.7% had one in 1954, and 90% by 1962.[108] In Britain, there
were 15,000 television households in 1947, 1.4 million in 1952,
and 15.1 million by 1968.
Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Television_i
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8-Track Tapes/Players
"Bill" William Lear was the designer of the Lear Jet
executive airplane, inventor of the 8-track stereo, and
patented several car radios (U.S. patent 1,944,139 - not the
first).
William Lear founded the Lear Electronics Corporation,
merging with the Siegler corporation in 1960 to become
Lear Siegler Inc. William Lear used the capital he acquired
from the Lear Siegler merger* to develop Learjet (a
company he eventually sold to Gates rubber Co.) where
Lear dedicated his life to the development of an
antipollution steam engine and new materials for airplanes.
History of the 8-track Tape
The 8-track format, on the other hand, was developed by a
diverse consortium that included the Ampex Magnetic Tape
Company, Lear Jet Company and RCA Records, and
enjoyed the tremendous advantage of being championed at
its inception by Ford Motors, which in 1965 (debuted
September 15) offered 8-track players as an option in their
complete line of 1966 model cars.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllear.htm
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Circa 1970’s Calculator
The hand-held pocket calculator was invented at Texas
Instruments, Incorporated (TI) in 1966 by a
development team which included Jerry D. Merryman,
James H. Van Tassel and Jack St. Clair Kilby.
In 1974 a basic patent for miniature electronic
calculators has been issued to Texas Instruments
Incorporated. The patent is for personal-sized, batteryoperated calculators which have their main electronic
circuitry in a single integrated semiconductor circuit
array, such as the popular "one-chip" calculators.
This represents another in a series of landmark
developments at Texas Instruments directly relating to
miniature calculators. In 1958, Texas Instruments
invented the first integrated circuit, subsequently
patented in 1964. This key innovation resulted in
dramatic change in virtually all areas of electronics
equipment design, including calculators.
Retrieved from:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/handcalculator.htm
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The First TV Channel Changer
The first TV remote control, called "Lazy
Bones," was developed in 1950 by Zenith
Electronics Corporation (then known as Zenith
Radio Corporation). Lazy Bones used a cable
that ran from the TV set to the viewer. A motor
in the TV set operated the tuner through the
remote control. Although customers liked
having remote control of their television, they
complained that people tripped over the
unsightly cable that meandered across the living
room floor.
Retrieved from:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/remotectl.htm
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Manual Typewriter
In 1829, William Burt from Detroit, Michigan patented
his typographer which had characters arranged on a
rotating frame. However, Burt’s machine, and many of
those that followed it, were cumbersome, hard to use,
unreliable and often took longer to produce a letter
than writing it by hand. Finally, in 1867 a Milwaukee,
Wisconsin printer-publisher-politician named
Christopher Latham Sholes, with assistance from
Carlos Glidden and Samuel Soule, patented what was
to be the first useful typewriter. He licensed his patent
to Remington & Sons of Ilion, New York, a noted
American gun maker. In 1874, the Remington Model
1, the first commercial typewriter, was placed on the
market. Based on Sholes’ mechanical typewriter, the
first electric typewriter was built by Thomas Alva
Edison in the United States in 1872, but the widespread
use of electric typewriters was not common until the
1950s.
Retrieved from:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/sholes.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
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Reel to Reel Film
The movie projector was first invented in
the 1890's. Early film devices were created
by inventors all over the world. The most
significant inventions were made by the
French Lumiere brothers and Thomas
Edison. Several movie projection devices
were invented from the 1890's to the early
1900's. Some of the early movie projectors
were called cinematographs, kinetoscopes,
and the vitascope.
Retrieved from: http://www.ehow.com/about_5048420_historymovie-projector.html
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The Tape Recorder and Cassette
The "compact cassette" (a Philips trademark) was introduced by
the Philips Corporation in 1963 and marketed in 1965 as a
device purely intended for portable speech-only dictation
machines. There was never any intention that it be a
replacement for reel-to-reel recorders. The tape width was
nominally 1⁄8 inch (actually 0.15 inch, 3.81 mm) and tape speed
was 1.875 inches (4.76 cm) per second, giving a decidedly non
Hi-Fi frequency response and quite high noise levels.
Early recorders were typically hand-held battery-powered
devices with built-in microphones and recording automatic gain
control, intended for dictation and journalists. However, by the
mid 1970s, both tape and recorder quality had improved to the
point where a cassette deck with manual level controls and VU
meters became a standard component of home high fidelity
systems. Eventually the reel-to-reel recorder was completely
displaced, in part because of the usage constraints presented by
their large size, expense, and the inconvenience of threading and
rewinding the tape reels, while cassettes are more portable and
can be stopped and immediately removed in the middle of
playback without rewinding. Cassettes became extremely
popular for automotive and other portable music applications.
Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_player
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The Sony Walkman
According to Sony, "In 1979, an empire in
personal portable entertainment was created
with the ingenious foresight of Sony Founder
and Chief Advisor, the late Masaru Ibuka, and
Sony Founder and Honorary Chairman Akio
Morita. It began with the invention of the first
cassette Walkman TPS-L2 that forever changed
the way consumers listen to music.“
The developers of the first Sony Walkman were
Kozo Ohsone, general manager of the Sony
Tape Recorder Business Division, and his staff,
under the auspices and suggestions of Ibuka and
Morita.
Retrieved from:
http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/Walkman.
htm
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Electronic Typewriter
James Fields Smathers of Kansas City invented what is considered the
first practical power-operated typewriter in 1914. In 1920, after
returning from Army service, he produced a successful model and in
1923 turned it over to the Northeast Electric Company of Rochester for
development. Northeast was interested in finding new markets for their
electric motors and developed Smathers's design so that it could be
marketed to typewriter manufacturers, and from 1925 Remington
Electric typewriters were produced powered by Northeast's motors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TypewriterB
Based on Sholes’ mechanical typewriter, the first electric typewriter
was built by Thomas Alva Edison in the United States in 1872, but the
widespread use of electric typewriters was not common until the 1950s.
The electronic typewriter, a typewriter with an electronic "memory"
capable of storing text, first appeared in 1978. It was developed
independently by the Olivetti Company in Italy and the Casio Company
in Japan.
DID YOU KNOW?:
There was buying resistance to the first typewriters, because poor
spellers could no longer hide their ignorance by using poor
handwriting.
Samuel L Clemens, better know as Mark Twain, was probably the first
author to submit a typed script to his publisher? - he was one of the first
to purchase a Sholes & Glidden typewriter.
Retrieved From:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/typrwriter.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
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First Computers Used in the Workplace
The first training and use of computers I had was in
1983 when I began working for Rogers Cable. There
were no pretty icons to click on, instead you had to
know the keystrokes and f-key functions. The
software I used in the 80’s was WordPerfect and
Lotus Notes.
In 1986 I took my first trip backpacking through
Europe. I loved it so much that I quit my job at
Rogers, sold my stocks and bought a ticket to
England with a return date of one year. Soon after
returning home, I left again; this time with a one-way
ticket to London and $300.
In 1992 I returned home once again and began
working at the Wellesley Hospital in Toronto as a
medical secretary. Computers improved greatly by
the nineties and the software used was Microsoft
Word (before the icons) and Excel. Sadly the hospital
was closed in 1997.
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Machines of the 80’s & 90’s
During the 90’s the most frequently used
equipment was the computer, desktop printer,
photocopier, and fax machine. For personal
use it was a manual camera and Sony
Discman, which replaced my Sony walkman.
Since childhood my passion has always been
for travel and photography. My first 35 mm
camera was given to me in 1986 as I embarked
on my first trip to Europe.
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Digital B&W Film Enlarger
While at university in Nova Scotia I was
exposed to state of the art digital B&W
darkroom equipment.
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First Computer Used in School
This was the first computer I used in school, which
was at university ( NSCAD) in 1997 while studying
computer animation.
The iMac G3 was the first model of the iMac line of
personal computers made by Apple Inc. (formerly
Apple Computer, Inc.), and the originator of the
Legacy-free PC market category. Like the first Macs,
the iMac G3 is an all-in-one personal computer,
encompassing both the monitor and the system unit in
a single enclosure. Originally released in bondi blue
and later a range of other brightly colored, translucent
plastic casings, the iMac shipped with a keyboard and
mouse in matching tints.
Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3
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My First Cell Phone
While working on my undergrad degree at York
University I purchased my first cell phone. This
was not because I wanted phone mobility, it
was simply because every time I tried to use a
payphone at the university I would have to wait
a very long time to find one free. I finally gave
in and purchased a mobile phone to eliminate
my irritation with public phones.
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First Home PC and Internet Connection
This was my first personal computer and dial- up
internet connection at home (1999). I switched to high
speed when that became available. My first online and
correspondence courses were taken from York
University. Synchronous courses were not yet
available.
The Presario family of computers was launched for the
consumer marketplace in September 1993. Although
HP has since acquired Compaq, the Presario name was
not discontinued due to its marketability. In the mid1990s, Compaq began manufacturing PC monitors as
part of the Presario brand. An all-in one unit, the CDS520, containing both the PC and the monitor in the
same case was also released.
The Presario brand is still being produced. There are
currently three notebook models and two desktop
models, as of May 2009.
Retrieved from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Presario
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Living and Teaching Overseas
Most of my teaching experience has been attained
overseas. While in Korea I taught all core subjects to
elementary school children and taught business
English in Korean Corporations. (a)
b
a
Leaving Korea for Thailand I taught English at grade
5 level and designed art camps for young children.
(d)
From Thailand I spent several months travelling
around Southeast Asia before returning home for a
brief visit.
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Photographs by Sylvia Buchanan
Soon after I went to the Middle East where I taught
college and university English, digital photography
and graphic art in Oman and English to Medical
students for a brief time in Saudi Arabia. (b)
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